NOW BOOKING On-site workshops in Phoenix for September and October. Live online workshops for individuals open for sign-up.

About

Designed by an educator. Run by an operator.

Most workplace training is written by people who have never worked a shift. That is the gap this exists to close.

Gina Wilt, founder of NextReady Studio

Gina Wilt, EdD

I have spent my career designing how adults learn. Most recently I directed professional learning at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton College, building programs for educators and organisations. Before that I worked in program development, strategy and partnerships across higher education, K–12 systems and nonprofits.

I also run customer-facing businesses in this market — boarding, car-sharing and resale. That means I am not describing your problem from the outside. I have stood in it: the shift that goes wrong, the review that stings, the good employee who needs one skill they were never taught.

NextReady Studio is where those two halves meet. Real instructional design, built for people who cannot lose a week to a seminar.

Credentials

  • Doctorate in Education (EdD) — adult learning and leadership
  • Master of Business Administration (MBA) — completed 2025
  • Certifications — Balanced Scorecard, digital marketing
  • Previously — Director of professional learning, Arizona State University Mary Lou Fulton College
  • Operating — boarding, car-sharing and resale businesses in the Phoenix area
  • Based in — Laveen, Arizona

How I work

Plainly. I will tell you what ninety minutes can and cannot do. I will not send you a proposal padded with numbers I made up. If the price or the timing is a problem, tell me and we will find a way — I would rather make it work for your business than win an argument about a rate.

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NextReady Studio is a GMW Group LLC brand

GMW Group is my consulting practice, working with education and mission-driven organisations on program design and strategy. NextReady Studio is the workplace-training side of it, built for small and midsize businesses.

Thrive Vibes

I also run Thrive Vibes — Arizona pet-friendly trip guides, adventure-ready rentals with the gear included, and one-family dog boarding here in Laveen. It is a consumer brand with a completely different audience, and it is also the reason I can say what I say on this site. I am on the other side of the counter every week: taking the booking, answering the message at nine at night, handling the guest whose plan just changed. The workshops are built from that, not from a textbook.

If you run a patio, taproom, shop or hotel that welcomes dogs, Thrive Vibes is where I write about places like yours — verified on the ground, rated on shade, water and welcome.